A Rosaceous Plant or Shrub With Five-Petaled Flowers

Rosa

• Rosa meineble "Red Meidiland" is a groundcover-type rose shrub that is only 1 1/2 to 2 feet tall but spreads to a width of 4 to 5 feet. It produces 3-inch-diameter red flowers with white centers. Rosa "Mutabilis," China rose, produces 3-inch-diameter flowers that change colors. They are yellow when they open, then gradually change to orange, pink and dark pink to red as they age. The shrub grows to a mature height of 3 to 6 feet and width of 2 to 5 feet. Rosa "Dainty Bess" is a tea rose that produces large 4- to 5-inch-diameter pale pink flowers. This shrub grows to a mature height of 3 to 4 feet and width of 2 to 3 feet. All of these rose shrubs bloom from mid-spring until first frost with single-form five-petaled flowers.

Fragaria

• Fragaria are also in the Rosaceae family and produce white or pink five-petaled flowers. They are strawberry plants. "Cavendish" blooms in white in late spring. It is a June-bearing type of strawberry that does produce fruit but only one large crop that generally ripens by the end of June. "Eversweet" is an everbearing type of strawberry plant that blooms in white. It produces a crop of strawberries every six weeks from late spring until first frost. "Frel, Pink Panda" blooms in pink from spring to fall but it does not produce strawberries reliably. It is a hybrid cross produced from a wild strawberry plant and a cinquefoil Potentilla plant.

Geum

• Geums, commonly called avens, are in the Rosaceae family and produce five-petaled flowers. These are herbaceous perennial plants. "Mrs. J. Bradshaw" is 1 to 2 feet tall and produces panicles of 1 1/4-inch-diameter red-orange flowers in the spring. "Cherry Cordial" is 9 to 12 inches tall and blooms in red from mid- to late spring. Geum coccineum "Cooky" is only 6 to 12 inches tall and produces orange flowers from midspring to midsummer.

Potentilla

• Potentilla fruticosa, shrubby cinquefoil, is a deciduous shrub that grows to a height of 2 to 4 feet and width of 3 to 5 feet. It blooms from late spring to early fall with yellow 1 1/2-inch-diameter flowers. "Flamenco" is an herbaceous perennial type of cinquefoil that grows to a height and width of 1 to 2 feet and produces red flowers in late spring. Potentilla nepalensis "Ron McBeath" is a groundcover type cinquefoil that is 9 to 12 inches tall and 1 to 1 1/2 feet wide. It produces bright reddish-pink flowers with red centers throughout the spring and summer. These varieties of Potentilla all produce five-petaled flowers.

Rubus

• Blackberries and raspberries are also in the Rosaceae family and generally produce five-petaled flowers. Rubus fruticosus "Chester" is a type of blackberry that blooms in pale pink from mid- to late spring. It produces blackberries which usually ripen in July. R. idaeus "Fallgold" is a raspberry plant that blooms in white and produces gold-colored berries in late spring and then again in late summer to early fall.